So, I was with my sister and her husband at Shop 'n' Save today in St. Louis. We have a game night planned and I was hoping to procure some Leinenkugels Honey Weiss for the festivities. I go to the checkout line, the cashier scans the beer and asks for my ID. I appreciate this, so I give him my ID, a Minnesota ID. I state that my birthday is in the red lettering. He takes it from me, feels it and walks away. He's gone for maybe a minute or two and a woman comes into the line behind me. She puts her things on the conveyor belt thing. I tell her that he had to go check my ID because Minnesota IDs are made of a super flexible material so they don't break. They can go through the washer and dryer and all that and they won't break. The problem is that everyone thinks they're fake. So he comes back over to the line with someone else and says, "Sorry, we don't accept out of state ID." Seriously? First of all, you DO accept out of state ID, you just think this is fake. The woman he brought back to the line was also really rude about it as if she just expected me to leave it at that. No. I brought out my passport. I could have easily had someone else buy it for me, but it was the principle of the matter. So, they call the manager. Turns out the manager was in the middle of decorating a cake so it took a couple minutes. Meanwhile, the woman behind me is asking me about the license so I tell her about all its cool features and let her see it etc. She was really good about the whole situation. So the manager finally comes up to the line, takes my license, says they don't accept passports, takes my passport and disappears for a while. The cashier is just hanging out, offering us candy canes. She comes back, says "The only reason we are accepting this is because the books says Minnesota licenses are flexible." HA! Take that, Missouri! Seriously, I have never had a problem with this before. I've used my license all over the country, but I've never had anyone refuse it before. They said they didn't accept it because they had never seen anything like it before. That says a lot about Missouri... my hopes for the Missouri intelligence have just been dashed against the rocks.

Don't worry, we had a happy ending with this, I got my Leinenkugels and my ID was eventually praised above all other state IDs. Win!!